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Whilst teenage contraception rates have reduced in England over the last 25 years, this reduction has been less pronounced in County Durham, which has higher teenage conception rates that both the North East, and England averages. The psycho-social impacts on teenage parents are significant, with high levels of parental stress, higher risk of developing mental health problems, and poorer physical health outcomes when compared to non-teenage parents. Furthermore, teenage parenthood is also often associated with social exclusion and deprivation, with many teenage parents coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. A number of government backed policies have been developed to promote social inclusion amongst teenage parents aimed at increasing participation in education and employment.

The authors describe the role of the continuous counselor in a comprehensive interagency service-delivery system for adolescent parents. Case managers were queried about their roles and functions. Implications for increasing their importance and for training case managers are discussed.

Teenage pregnancy has been the subject of much attention in recent social policy, including a particular strategy for supported housing for teenage parents. The issue of support, both formal and from family, is central to this endeavour, and problematic. In this paper we unravel New Labour's construction of teenage parents' housing need as an issue of isolation from support. First we focus on family support, and argue that New Labour's supported housing strategy ignores its fragile and individualized nature and thus puts it in jeopardy. We then disentangle the discourse of welfare dependency that underpins this strategy and show that its disregard for teenage parents' need for independent housing and capacity for autonomous living says more about the wish to control those teenage parents that New Labour perceives most at risk of welfare dependency than it does about a genuine desire to support them. We conclude that a right to independent housing is key to a strategy that genuinely aims to support teenage parents.